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London Fashion Week is a trade-only event, but that doesn't mean you can't be a part of the action. From watching shows on your sofa to observing the fashion pack do its thing, here are our suggestions for how you can be a part of it too:

WATCHClick here
to watch live streams of the catwalk shows taking place at LFW's home, Somerset House. There'll be no wishing you had worn flats, fumbling for tickets and trying to track down your colleagues as you snuggle up and enjoy the best view in the house. On the opening day, 10 catwalk shows are being streamed, so make a schedule and stick to it!
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VISIT
The gargantuan catwalk tent is erected in the courtyard at Somerset House, and while you need a ticket to get in to shows, there's nothing to stop Joe Bloggs having a wander around the cobbles and taking in what all the editors, buyers and photographers are wearing. This is the perfect place to grab a coffee and do some serious people watching.

BUY
On February 18, Katie Eary's loud and proud collection for affordable high street retailer River Island launches. The former Kanye West collaborator has taken inspiration from Hunter S. Thompson tale Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas to create a plethora of zany, animal-print poolside pieces that are guaranteed to turn heads.
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SEE
If you're on Oxford St on Sunday and need a virtual fashion fix, plonk yourself outside Topshop and watch four (lucky? embarrassed?) headset-sporting winners be immersed in the brand's Unique show, which takes place at the Tate Modern at 3pm. Screens in the flagship store's windows will show a live feed of the runway, the backstage action, the VIP arrivals, the set design and animated features. This could be as close as you get to Kate Moss.
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Also, our favourite shoe designer of the moment, Sophia Webster, has created an installation for the windows of the five star May Fair Hotel (Stratton St, W1) so that will defintely be worth viewing with a cocktail in hand.

DOWNLOAD
Harper's Bazaar's fashion week emojis are brilliant. There's a weird and wonderful array of style-centric emoticons, from a quilted Chanel bag (the Boy model, to be precise) and Karl Lagerfeld's cat Choupette, to bottles of super-healthy green juice and perfect accessories such as ear cuffs and Valentino's Rockstud heels. Endless fun. Download via the
AppStore

SPLURGE
Anyone can visit The Shop, the concept store at Somerset House. Set across two rooms in the West Wing of the ground floor, you can snap up the spring collections by the likes of Bella Freud, DJ by Dominic Jones, Markus Lupfer and Zoe Jordan in a cotemporary space designed by Robert Storey. Credit cards at the ready.

JOIN THE CONVERSATION
London Fashion Week is hosting Q&A sessions on Twitter and when you pose a question using the hashtag #AskLFW, guest tweeters will respond via Vine - so you'll have a very personal insight. Also, if you're not following Telegraph Fashion on
Twitter
and
Instagram
then you certainly should for irreverant updates

SWOT UP ON THE UNKNOWN NAMES
Ditch the crowds and check out the collections of the London College of Fashion's most recent graduates at the MA Showcase (Victoria House Basement, London WC1B) - then impress your pals with your predictions for who is set to become the next Stella. Then there's the International Fashion Showcase, which will see over 30 embassies and cultural institutions across London create fashion exhibitions to display their emerging fashion designers (at 180 The Strand, WC2). It's open to everyone and a fascinating insight into the emerging talents from far-flung countries such as Paraguay, Panama and Vietnam.

SCOFF
If you want to sip what the fashion pack are drinking, and munch what they're eating, look no further than Plenish juices and Propercorn. The former is a super-healthy blend of fruits and juices, and the latter is a delightful sweet fix that's low on calories and high on fashionable feel-good factor. Look out for Plenish's fruit machines popping up with prizes at various London show venues - match three cherries and you'll win a three-day cleanse. We have it on good authority that their juicy croupiers have been employed for their good looks too. So grab a huge pair of sunglasses and off you munch...